Public Healthcare Systems, Medi-Cal, Managed Care, FQHCs, and IBH

Brief Description

This workshop will cover an overview of California’s public healthcare system and the Medi-Cal Managed Care landscape for behavioral health. An introduction to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and the values and challenges of an Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) model.

Learning Objectives 

LO 1: Participants will describe the key structural and functional components of our public healthcare system, with a focus on Medi-Cal Managed Care
LO 2: Participants will describe key elements of FQHCs and how they incorporate culturally responsive care
LO 3: Participants will describe the key elements of an IBH model and the values and challenges of IBH

Presenter Information

Samira Pingali is the Director of Behavioral Health at Community Health Center Network where she supports eight community health centers around the East Bay to enhance behavioral health (BH) programs and advocacy. Specifically, Samira leads strategic initiatives to integrate BH within primary care, addiction services, and community resources. Samira is particularly passionate about increasing pediatric and adolescent access to behavioral healthcare, with an emphasis on prevention and early intervention. More recently, Samira has focused on addressing the mental health needs of people involved in the criminal justice system. Samira received her MPH from Columbia University, where she specialized in research design and methodology. 

Webinar Format

The Zoom webinar will be live, recorded, closed captioned, and offered in English with a Spanish translation audio feed. Participants will be able to ask questions via Q&A function.

Disability Access

SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Monday 10/11/21.

Continuing Education Information

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.